As the government grows more bloated and more complex, it naturally favors the big, the powerful, and the well-connected—because only they can afford to hire armies of lawyers, accountants, and lobbyists to handle big government. And here's the truth: It can't be fair unless it's simple.

I have spent my whole life challenging the status quo and overhauling bloated bureaucracies. It’s what I did at Hewlett-Packard and it is what I will do when I lead the federal government.

That is the dirty little secret of giant, expensive regulations like ObamaCare or Dodd-Frank. They were written in part by lobbyists for big companies who want the rules to work for them.

It is how Hillary Clinton has been able to repeat her lies about Benghazi.

But there is an opportunity here, if our next president is prepared to seize it.

All of our wounds are self-inflicted—and all of our problems are fixable.

It will take citizenship and it will take leadership, but together, we can fix them.

There’s an old saying that if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. For politicians, regulations and bureaucracy are their hammer. For too long, they have been in the business of managing problems and they have forgotten that leadership is about envisioning solutions.

We need a proven, tested leader in the White House—someone who has challenged the status quo and who is not afraid to make enemies.

She must be prepared to change the order of things because she hasn’t spent her whole life in the system.

We need a president of courage and conviction, who is committed to citizen government and who will engage you to solve our nation’s problems.

I have spent my whole life challenging the status quo and overhauling bloated bureaucracies. It’s what I did at Hewlett-Packard and it is what I will do when I lead the federal government.

I would not replace a single one. At the same time, we must move to a pay-for-performance system and turn the federal government into a meritocracy.

We must examine every regulation on the books today. Congress should pass the REINS Act, which will require every major regulation from the White House to be reviewed and voted up or down.

Finally and most importantly, we must engage the American people. Technology allows us to do this easily.

I will use that technology to engage you and put pressure on the political class to actually get something done.

Politicians have gotten us into this mess. It will take a proven leader and citizens to get us out of it.

It's time to take our government back.

Carly Fiorina is a former candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. She served as chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005. She has also served on the Defense Business Board, as the chairman of the CIA's External Advisory Board and on the Advisory Group for Transformational Diplomacy for the Department of State. Follow her on Twitter @CarlyFiorina.